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AUSTIN — Former state. Rep. John Davis, a Houston Republican who did not seek re-election in 2014, has officially kicked off a new career: lobbyist. Continuing a long revolving door tradition that some in the Legislature are looking to slow down, Dav… …

AUSTIN — Gov.-elect Greg Abbott has raised more than $1.8 million in the weeks after winning a landslide election on Nov.4, helping to propel his war chest to a comfy $12.5 million as he prepares to take office next week. A new campaign finance repo… …

AUSTIN— Dan Partick’s lieutenant governor campaign released a new television ad Tuesday casting the Houston state senator as a crusader for education reform and his Democratic opponent, Leticia Van de Putte, as too liberal on the issue. “Leticia … …

AUSTIN — Republican Dan Patrick, the front runner in the lieutenant governor race, will start airing television ads across the state starting Wednesday, according to public records, in what marks his first round of TV buys in the general election. Co… …

UPDATED with Patrick’s fundraising/spending figure below: AUSTIN — The two lieutenant governor candidates are respectively sitting on multimillion-dollar war chests that will provide each the opportunity to splurge big on television ads heading i… …

AUSTIN — The television ad war has officially begun in the lieutenant governor’s race. With less then two months before voters elect a new lieutenant governor, Democratic nominee Leticia Van de Putte is set to launch her first two TV ads this weeke… …

AUSTIN — State lawmakers renewed efforts Thursday to find a “Texas solution” to expand health-insurance coverage for low-income residents without accepting the Medicaid expansion in President Obama’s …

AUSTIN — State. Sens. Dan Patrick and Leticia Van de Putte, the two candidates running for lieutenant governor, will debate on September 24 — the first agreed upon debate and possibly the only face-to-face showdown that Texas voters will get before… …

AUSTIN — Democratic lieutenant governor nominee Leticia Van de Putte said Thursday that her Republican opponent, Dan Patrick, has yet to respond to a series of debates she has proposed ahead of the Nov. 4 election. Van de Putte and Patrick spoke sepa… …